Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  David Oyelowo plays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma. Just Jared.com The outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts were celebrated during an inspiring evening at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium last Friday (February 6) in Pasadena, Calif. The big winner of…

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“It’s about distraction. It’s about focus. The brain is slow and it can’t multitask. Tap him here, take from there.” Will Smith stars as Nicky, a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he’s teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The late Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown.  (Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com) associated press ATLANTA — Messages of support were being offered Monday as people awaited word on singer Whitney Houston’s daughter, who authorities say was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub over the weekend in a suburban Atlanta townhome….

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Interview with Kam Williams Tasha Smith is a multifaceted actress whose work brings style and intensity to the subjects she plays on the big and small screens. She currently stars in the television series “Tyler Perry’s For Better Or Worse” on the OWN Network, for which she earned an NAACP Image Award nomination as “Outstanding…

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By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act Well, those of you who’ve been calling – make that screaming – for Oprah Winfrey to pepper up her OWN network lineup with original scripted content created by someone other than Tyler Perry, here ya go… Ava DuVernay will  write, direct and executive produce a new original drama…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marion “Suge” Knight joined by his attorney David Kenner, left, during his arraignment, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Compton, Calif. Knight, 49, pleaded not guilty on to murder, attempted murder and other charges filed after he struck two men with his truck last week.  (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool) By Anthony McCartney Associated Press COMPTON,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner in a scene from Black or White. By Kendall Alexander Just when Anthony Mackie was explaining to The Grio, that America is “just tired of being bombarded with race right now,” while discussing Selma’s Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo’s snub by the Academy Awards, establishment, he ironically stars…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Inteview with Kam Williams Kevin Michael Costner was born in Lynwood, California on January 18, 1955. After landing a breakout role in Silverado in 1985, he enjoyed a meteoric rise in such hit pictures as The Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham and Field of Dreams en route…

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By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act A useful study released this week from multinational accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, on your movie-going habits helps explain recent trends in declining theatrical attendance. Specifically, the majority of participants in the survey (53 percent) said that the reason they saw fewer movies in the theater last year (2014) than…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Omari Hardwick By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act Forget about the so-called renaissance in black film. It looks like the real renaissance is happening, in TV land, based on the onslaught (relatively speaking of course) of new series centered around characters of African descent, across the broadcast network and cable TV networks….

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